‘Occupy’ protesters plan to disrupt Wall Street in September
Wall Street may get another reminder of discontent with inequality and corporate America next month as “Occupy” protesters say they plan to disrupt Manhattan’s financial district.
Demonstrators plan to mark the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, which morphed into a global protest movement last year, with a three days of events, including a concert, that will culminate on Sept. 17, according to the website s17nyc.org.
Planned disruptions include obstructing intersections around the New York Stock Exchange and elsewhere in the financial district, as well as other “autonomous or mass actions” that morning, a Monday, according to the website.
Some activists plan to bring handcuffs and attempt citizen’s arrests of bankers, according to Bloomberg News.
“We are just going to cause chaos, period,” one organizer, Drew Hornbein, told Bloomberg News. “Have you ever been in poverty in this country? Talk about inconvenience. I don’t have any sympathy for anyone who has any semblance of middle-class life in this country -- no sympathy.”
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